Joseph Kahn on Saving Hollywood

From The Hollywood Reporter we get an opinion piece on how to save Hollywood. Bring Back the Hollywood Asshole: Joseph Kahn Opinion Column

Joseph Kahn is a Grammy-winning director, who has been involved, primarily, with music videos the past three decades. That apparently gets him an entry into Hollywood studios on a somewhat regular basis.

His radical idea? Hollywood needs to go back to making money, and for that Hollywood needs suits that understand business.

If you do not start making more movies about white guys flying fighter jets, the box office will not justify the monthly gardening bill at the Paramount lot, and you will be replaced by Larry Ellison’s AI or Netflix’s Deep-learning Algorithm Network Licensing Intelligence Node, aka DAN LIN™.

He talks a lot about what happened since COVID, but Hollywood's downfall started long before then.

So this is what we need you to do with your elite MBAs and high SAT scores: Get back to being a meritocracy. Drop the affectations. Best, most profitable idea wins. Hire crews and staff based on excellence, not what your favorite Harvard admissions counselor would love. Build movie stars. Learn what the poors want — people in flyover states who make less than $300,000 a year. Make sure those movie stars do not offend those poors by insulting Jesus or Tom Brady.

If they don't change the way they are running Hollywood, all we will get is the drek coming out of streaming. And yes, some of it is good. A lot of it is filler. Bad filler.

Remember that people's pensions are tied up with Hollywood. Not movie stars or executives, but people who build sets, and record sound, and do all of the other things that make movies and TV possible.

In my youth, back in the dark ages, going to the cinema was something we did on a regular basis. Dates consisting of dinner and a movie became so cliche that TBS adopted it as regular show from 1995 until 2011. Of course movies were not 3 hours, but closer to 90 minutes, which left time, for dinner, a movie, and a drink or dessert. 3 hour movies make that impossible, or at least unreasonable. And just groups of friends would go to the movies to watch the latest over-the-top action movie, or the romantic comedy.

Personally, I think it is too late for Hollywood, in the same way the auto industry will never again be concentrated in and around Detroit. And that's okay. I do hope it survives in some form, and not in the drek we've been getting from the likes of Amazon Prime (Rings of Power or The Wheel of Time) or Disney+ (Willow).

Hollywood Is Dying

I love movies, but increasingly I say that I love old movies, because I haven't seen anything in years, that interested me. Even The Hollywood Reporter is covering the problems, so you know they're bad. Los Angeles Filming Levels Down Amid State Recovery Effort

Since I'm not really a fan of horror these days, I haven't seen Obsession, Iron Lung, or Backrooms. I suppose I will seem them eventually.

The number of shoot days in the three-month period from April to June fell 12 percent compared to the same period last year.

The article spends a lot of time covering the tax incentives in place, and that L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is lobbying to increase.

It doesn't cover all the other insane requirements of permitting in LA, or the dictates of the unions, but then you don't really expect that from The Hollywood Reporter. (I think of that "news outlet" more as a cheering section than real journalism at this point.)

Hat tip to the Film Threat News video LA FILMING LEVELS CONTINUE TO TUMBLE

The problem with Hollywood is it's a hostile work environment.
    — Alan Ng

Why Supergirl Sucks

As explained by Jedi Brooks. Why Supergirl SUCKS - A Scene Comparison. I'm not sure I have anything to add... Enjoy.

Film Threat Reaction to The Odyssey

Alan Ng and Chris Gore had the opportunity to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Alan hated it. Chris said it was mixed.

This is the Film Threat Reactions video THE ODYSSEY OUT OF THE THEATER SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION

“I can’t wait to not see this movie again."
    — Alan Ng

Nolan to Fans of The Odyssey: STFU

The following quote/meme/whatever has been running through my head since I started reading/watching Christopher Nolan's replies/reactions to his trailer going down in flames. "Just consume product, and then get excited for next product."

Director Christopher Nolan isn't used to being on the receiving end of backlash over one of his projects. At least not before the project is released. He has made some bad movies. Not very many people like 2012's The Dark Knight Rises. Some people like Inception, and others don't. But they were all, mostly, highly anticipated before release. Not this time.

Race swaps. Updating for the mythical modern audience. And all the rest. That much is clear from the trailers. And I am almost as sick of Zendaya as I am of Pedro Pascal. (I said almost.)

As I type this, the last trailer for The Odyssey, which was released on the first of July, has 79,000 likes, and 746,000 dislikes. The dislikes are not an exact number, even if I could see more than 3 significant digits, because YouTube removed the exact count to protect people like Nolan. But the internet usually finds a way, and the count returned if you add an extension to your browser.

That ratio, is the reason that Nolan had to speak up, and attempt some damage control. He didn't go about it correctly.

This video is from Andre at Midnight's Edge. Chis Nolan just made ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Even Worse by Dismissing It

Nolan is tarnishing one of the foundational works of the entirety of Western civilization.

The video is about 14 minutes long.

Hollywood in Decline and in Denial

There are apparently a number of Hollywood Trade articles about the decline of the movie industry. Comparisons to Detroit seem to be everywhere. And there is a reason for that.

Below is Disparu's video How Hollywood Decided It Deserved To Die

But the most interesting part of the question isn't if they're failing, it's what caused them to fail, and how are they trying to fix it?

There is a lot of denial in Hollywood. Their failure isn't due to anything they are doing wrong. They believe they are not doing anything wrong.

There is also denial about where regulations come from.

It's like, oh, we're just a victim of California's tangle of regulations. as if they spring up out of the ether, that regulations are just a fact of life that have to exist rather than a consequence of the actions which California have taken themselves.

They can't see that regulations are a direct result of the people and the party they vote for.

One part that really interested me, is his discussion on the morality of actors. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson didn't want to discuss politics. He was immediately attacked and they tried to "shame him back onto the reservation."

This was part of a discussion of how, and why Hollywood has systematically fired all of the risk takers, and the psychology of the people who are left. (And why they want to shame The Rock back onto the reservation.)

They've killed off the risk takers, the new ideas, because to have new ideas, to be creative, you have to risk being offensive to the horde. You have to tell everyone else, "I don't care what you're doing. I know better." Because sometimes you will.

The video is almost 24 minutes, but I think it is worth your time. You don't need to watch all of it in one go.

I was interested in the 3 articles Disparu mentioned regarding theories of Moral Development, and why Hollywood is stuck in the "go along with the crowd" phase of development. I list them here, in case anyone else is interested.

• Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
• [Carol] Gilligan's Theory of Moral Development
• Understanding Political Differences Through Moral Foundations Theory (Haidt)

Hollywood Still Blaming the Fans

In case you haven't noticed, DC released a movie over the weekend. That was Supergirl. It was a massive flop.

Hollywood can't admit that the current crop of writers don't know how to write a superhero movie. They don't understand what the stakes should be, what the character arcs should be, how the dialog should flow, or anything else that might get people to turn out for a movie.

When Morbius failed, no one claimed racism. Of course when Blue Beetle crashed and burned, they blamed racism. (Explain Sinners then.) It is never their fault for producing a bad movie.

This is just a roundup of some of the reactions to the cope.

First, someone who is not one of the usual suspects. Amala Ekpunobi is usually more focused on politics, but she does push into the culture war side of culture. She published a video Hollywood Does It Again.

Then the usual crew...

• Disparu: Supergirl FALLOUT Gets WORSE As Media Hate Men
• Snarky Jay: SUPERGIRL FLOPPED... Now They're Blaming YOU
• Clownfish TV: Supergirl BOMBED and MEN are Blamed.
• RK Outpost: Supergirl FALLOUT Gets WORSE As Media Hate Men

Imagine if a vegetarian bought the popular (or maybe the 2nd-most popular) steak house in town. Then imagine that they didn't like the fact that the restaurant was serving meat, and so they changed the menu, either slowly over time, or all at once. Would it be the customers' fault that people stopped going to the restaurant? It isn't serving what the people want.

This is certainly what DC has been doing. And Marvel. Maybe all of Hollywood.

So why does Hollywood think their business is different?

They used to understand this. There was a saying. "It is show business, not show friends." I don't think that they understand that anymore.

NBC's Law & Order Recognizes Reality

It won't last long. NBC's Law & Order SVU actually acknowledges that women benefit from having a gun because they are weaker physically - Crime Prevention Research Center

NBC’s television police shows are often very biased against gun ownership. But a recent episode of Law & Order SVU (S27 E21 05 14 26) gets across an important point that women benefit from having a gun because they are weaker physically. Possibly we are reading too much into [this].

They usually just lie about the guns.

Sony Deletes Movies PlayStation Owners "Purchased"

Purchased is such a flexible term. Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who paid full price for them. The deletion is coming on September 1 and so far the company has said nothing about giving anyone their money back.

Well of course not, because when you buy "digital copies" of anything, you are really not buying anything. You are renting the item for the length of time they decide you get to have them.

What? You didn't read the terms and conditions before you clicked on "I agree?"

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.

As Steve would say, “Buy. Physical. Media.”

DCU: Is It the Dead Cinematic Universe, or the D-She-U?

Take your pick. (And yes, it was Nerdrotic who asked that question.)

Let's start with the final line from the embedded video below.

And look who has the last laugh now, because let's face it, Henry Caval dodged a speeding bullet when he was fired by James Gunn.

As I type this, Sunday afternoon, the weekend box office estimates are in, at least for the domestic take. It isn't good. The take for the James Gunn, DCU's movie, Supergirl, is $38 million for it's openning weekend. That is for Wednesday and Thursday previews, Friday's actual receipts, some (or all) of Saturday's reporting, and estimates for Sunday. They are pretty good at those estimates at this point.

The international numbers are $30 million, but those estimates are not nearly as good, and the reporting internationally won't really be complete for at least a few days.

You can find that data - it will be updated, positively or negatively as more reporting comes in - at The Numbers. (You have to click the "Box Office" tab, since I have not found a way to link to that directly)

UPDATE: As of Monday afternoon, the Sunday actuals have been revised down from the estimate. The weekend domestic total is now listed at $37.1 million. And the international numbers are even worse. The international box office came in at $25.5 million for a total weekend take of $62.6 million.

And because it bears repeating, it turns out the movie studios don't show movies for free. DC Studios will receive only about half of the box office receipts.

So, is James Gunn in charge of the Dead Cinematic Universe? Let's ignore Creature Commandos, I didn't watch, and neither did very many people, Peacemaker, which lost most people at the orgy scene, and anything else that is 2nd tier. James Gunn's Superman probably lost money, or barely broke even. We don't know, because we don't know the marketing budget, and I'm not convinced we know the real production cost. But it was not a grand success. Supergirl is on track to lose many millions, perhaps 100s of millions, of dollars. Sounds pretty dead to me.

Though it could be James Gunn is in charge of the D-She-U. Because it seems like Supergirl is about as popular as The Marvels, with a story line not too different from Captain Marvel. That is, there is no character arc for the protagonist. She is the same at the end of the movie. Nothing was changed.

This is the Nerdrotic video review of the new DCU movie. Supergirl is Abysmal - The DCU is DEAD

When you're making people miss the CW, I would say Paramount-Warner Brothers, or Mount Bros, has a big problem on their hands.

The movie is 28 minutes, but I think you will enjoy it.

What does it say about Hollywood, when the videos tearing their movies apart, are more entertaining than the movies?

There is a book about titled Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. Supergirl seems to be a "save the dog" adventure. I think they missed a couple of chapters.

What follows is a list of a few review articles on this film. I haven't read all, or even most, of these articles; I just find the titles funny. Well, except for the 3rd entry, which is sad. (Comparing Supergirl to Joker 2 is mean.)

• Forbres: ‘Supergirl’ Review: A Heroine Rendered Powerless By Scriptonite
• The NY Times: ‘Supergirl’ Review: This Glass Ceiling Is Made of Kryptonite
• Screen Crush: ‘Supergirl’ Barely Outgrosses ‘Joker 2’ in Opening Weekend
• The Atlantic: ‘Supergirl’ Crashes and Burns

How to Tank a Summer Blockbuster

I was going to say, that the first thing you need to do, is piss off your target audience, but the real problem is that Hollywood truly does not understand who the audience for superhero movies really is.

Case in point: Milly Alcock. We get the following from Cosmic Book News. Supergirl Box Office Tracking Now Eyes A $39M Low.

When the early projections for the Supergirl opening weekend box office were published, the high end projections were in the neighborhood of $55+ million in the USA and Canada. (Not sure why the projections include Canada, but don't include Mexico.) And then the studio set up some interviews between Milly Alcock and the LGBT media, and she insulted Christian dads, said that Supergirl is going to be some kind of gay or bisexual icon. Witness the result.

That’s notable for one big reason: it’s below the $45 million floor of the $45M–$55M range that recent tracking had settled on, and it’s a long way from where this started.

And that $39 million number is coming from Box Office Theory, one of the best sources for these projections available.

Even before this last round of recalculating the projections, Box Office Theory had settled on $51 million domestically, which is below The Flash, which had a $55 million domestic opening in 2024, and went on to lose $200 million on production budget (not including marketing) of between $200 and 220 million.

The other film that is being compared to Supergirl is The Marvels from Disney Marvel. That movie, from 2023, had an opening weekend of $46.1 million. Loses were calculated to be in the range of $237 million.

When this movie comes out this weekend, there will be much talk of superhero fatigue. But don't believe it. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which comes out July 31st, is already setting sales records.

Tickets for Tom Holland’s fourth Spidey solo film went on sale Wednesday (along with a new trailer) and sold more tickets in the United States in a single day than any film has in the past five years. The film that it could not beat? Spider-Man: No Way Home, the last Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, five years ago.

This is Disarpu's video Supergirl COPE Goes Nuclear As Box Office Dies.

Disparu makes some good points. The Supergirl comics were mostly purchased by men. Men are the primary audience for all superhero movies. Even Madam Web was primarily watched by men in the cinema, despite all of the marketing being aimed at women. The marketing for Supergirl seems to trying to paint this as a movie for women. That is the mistake that Disney made with The Marvels, or one of the mistakes, anyway.

The video is about 14 minutes long.

This is Nerdrotic's video Supergirl is COOKED - They Never Learn

UPDATE: Bill Hoyte at X sums of the general feeling about this movie.

Let me see if I got this right:

"Supergirl" is YET ANOTHER girlboss propaganda movie about a lesser-known FEMALE "hero."

She displays jealousy and contempt for her far more famous male cousin by calling him “naive” and “a bitch.”

She'll undoubtedly be portrayed as stronger and… pic.twitter.com/mJtTUyOywo

— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) June 22, 2026

The Greeks Strike Back

This is good. From Greek City Times: A Letter to Hollywood and Nolan's Odyssey Cast from Us Greeks

It turns out that there are no Greeks, in Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey. Nolan, the director who prides himself on authenticity, or something, didn't put any Greeks in one of the quintessential Greek stories.

We write to you as Greeks, not as fragments of antiquity, not as echoes from museum displays, and not as characters sealed in marble, but as a living people whose story has never stopped being written.

Click thru.

The hat tip goes to Metatron and his video THE GREEKS ARE FIGHTING BACK AGAINST NOLAN!!! Metatron has been going hard after Nolan & Company. And they deserve it.

Hollywood Actors Need to STFU - DC Edition

I know they won't. I just wish they would. ‘Supergirl’ Star Milly Alcock Claims The Film Is Beautiful Because “It’s Not Centered Around A Man” — Says Kara Would “Probably Go Both Ways”

Just days after making headlines by saying she was "honored" that many fans view Supergirl as a "queer icon," actress Milly Alcock is once again generating discussion about the character's sexuality and relationship to traditional gender roles.

During a recent interview, Alcock was asked whether Kara Zor-El's "queerness" was something she explored while preparing for the role. While she stopped short of explicitly labeling the character, the actress praised the film for not focusing on men and suggested she believes Supergirl would likely be attracted to both men and women.

This was after she made the comment basically saying that she was glad she pissed off Christian dads. Who the fuck does she think buys tickets to superhero movies?

Then there is this, from Giant Freaking Robot Supergirl Earns Rave Reviews, But The Movie Is Still Doomed

Most of the reviewers have been absolutely raving about Supergirl. Unfortunately, that enthusiasm may not be able to save a film that seems doomed to a mediocre box office performance.

Translation: There is no way this train wreck is going to make money.

On a similar note...

This is Critical Drinker's video Drinker's Chasers - Who Is This Movie Even Made For? This is an excerpt from a much longer panel discussion.

Modern Entertainment Destroys Another Franchise

Doctor Who was a BBC program that first aired 23 November 1963. It ended after 26 seasons in 1989, went on hiatus for a while, and started up again in 2005. It was a good run. Then it got captured by the woke.

While the BBC claims that it is NOT canceled, what else would they say? "We destroyed an iconic British TV franchise on the altar of DEI?" That is essentially what they did.

This is Critical Drinker's video So... Who's Next?

Because the Doctor Who of today was nothing more than a horrifying rotten corpse, vaguely resembling what it once was, but with the life and soul ripped out of it, showered in rainbow colored glitter, and made to prance and flounce around like an obscene puppet on strings.

So what other franchises are similarly destroyed? That's the question. Or maybe the question is, "Can any of them be saved?"

I still love Classic Who the best.

Spielberg - The Greatest Director of All Time - Past His Prime

Or as Nerdrotic says, it may be time to take away Grandpa's car keys.

This is the Nerdrotic video Disclosure Day REVIEW - Spielberg's WORST Film

Nerdrotic versus Legacy News Outlets

Jessika Lindstrom from Geeks + Gamers brings us a not-too-surprising story. Nerdrotic Defeats Legacy News Outlets - Friday Night Tights Beats CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News in Prime Time

Friday Night Tights is a panel discussion on YouTube, hosted by Gary "Nerdrotic" Buechler that covers popular culture. They cover primarily movies, TV/Streaming shows, video games, with the rare foray into comic books. (Gary used to own a comic shop.)

The dominance of the Mainstream Media – or "dinosaur media," as WDW Pro calls it – is a thing of the past. A recent report by Yahoo News revealed that YouTubers like Nerdrotic are outperforming legacy news outlets Fox News, CNN, and MS Now (previously MSNBC). In his recent video, our own WDW Pro breaks down all the numbers, so please check out the video below!

It isn't just in entertainment media that the new Media (YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, etc.) are outshining the legacy outlets.

[Culture] Culture also points out that, in addition to Nerdrotic and other YouTubers outshining legacy media outlets, two YouTube-based movies are dominating major Hollywood productions like The Mandalorian and Grogu at the box office, along with the low-budget horror film Obsession. In other words, the fatigue with the mainstream does not end with the news; people are tuning out and are hungry for something more, wanting more interaction and authenticity.

Here is the WDW Pro video mentioned in the Geeks + Gamers article. CNN and MSNBC Ratings TOPPED by NERDROTIC on YouTube?! Fox News Too!

WDW Pro is mostly associated with That Park Place, and came out of the theme park review world, but that was then.

Friday Night Tights is every Friday at 4 PM eastern time, (they will be late) on Rumble and on YouTube and maybe elsewhere. While it streams at that time, you can find it on the channel at any time after the stream ends.

You can find Gary's new book, Waiting for Nerdrotic, detailing his lifelong fight with addiction and its consequences, and more, at Rippasend. (No affiliation or remuneration)

The Painful Financials of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

We are on the third weekend of the latest Disney Star Wars movie. And things are worse than expected, and they were expected to be low.

The movie had a 70% drop in the 2nd weekend from the first weekend. Friday, the 3rd Friday of its theatrical run, was down 62% over the second weekend.

On Friday the box office for a Star Wars movie fell behind The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, which is basically the finale of an Australian animated web series, which I had never heard of.

Valliant Renegade is financial analyst and YouTube creator who follows the financial and business side of Hollywood. He is one of a few people who are dillegent about covering the real business side of show business. "It's not show friends," used to be a saying in Hollywood; today it doesn't seem like they want to make money.

This is Valliant Renegade's video Disney Star Wars Faces HUGE $125M Mando & Grogu LOSS

I don't even know at this point if Mandalorian and Grou can even get to 330 or 340 million. That's how dire this is. The international box office for this film hasn't been particularly overwhelming. In fact, it's been more underwhelming even than the domestic box office. And that's going to put this movie on pace to lose about $125 million, if not more.

That number is based on the stated production budget for the movie, but Disney is known for lying about production budgets. If they do major production in England, they have to file tax documents that will eventually reveal all of the financial details. I have no idea where this film was produced.

The video is 12 minutes.

The Absolute Collapse of Star Wars Box Office

Odin is a member of the Friday Night Tights crew, and he is a movie reviewer who focuses heavily on the financial aspects of the movie industry. And I love the numbers and the statistics. He also writes for Geeks + Gamers. It’s Official: Independent Films Backrooms and Obsession Embarrass Disney’s Mandalorian and Grogu – Box Office Breakdown

He took aim at the box office numbers Sunday afternoon, as he often (usually? always?) does.

Just when you thought that the movie business had lost any sense of intrigue or surprise, two independent films made by YouTubers blasted their way to the top of the box office discussion. For the last few weeks, the horror film Obsession has been doing things I haven't seen since I started covering the box office back in 2018. Not only did it make 39% more in its second weekend than its first without any massive change in theater counts, but it has now increased again, making another 10% gain, according to current weekend #3 estimates.

There has been much written and recorded about the implosion of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu at the box office. It has been beaten by two independent horror films. Backrooms had a budget of about $10 million, and came in at #1 in its first week in release. Obsession had a budget of about $1 million and came in at #2 in its second week in release.

Compare those numbers to the current Star Wars movie, that had a budget in the 100s of millions of dollars, came in at #3 in its second week in review.

This is the OMB Reviews video Backrooms and Obsession Just Destroyed the Hollywood Machine

Odin is not the only person covering this. Here is the Midnight's Edge video Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu is Dead, Kathleen Kennedy the Culprit

If you are interested in looking at the raw numbers, see The Numbers.

A Miguel Gonzalez Musical Interlude

Miguel Gonzalez brings us a lovely musical interlude. Sunday Repose

And a short review of Amazon Prime's series Spider-Noir, staring Nicholas Cage.

Not a bad series. A mixture of Marvel comics and old timey serials of the 1950s with a good dash of Noir gangster cinema

I am going to find time this week to watch it. (There are only 8 episodes.) You can watch in either color or black and white. Black and white is recommended because it is shot in the Film Noir style, which doesn't work in color. And it was filmed shot with the idea that it would be in black and white.

Click thru for "Dream a Little Dream of Me" from the soundtrack to Spider-Noir as performed by Li Jun Li.

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" was written in the 1930s, but you (might) know it because it was covered by Cass Eliot with the Mamas and the Papas in 1968.

We Have a Star Wars Movie

A really bad Star Wars movie. It opened to the lowest box office in the Disney Lucasfim era.

This post morphed into a monster, because one post got stuck in drafts, so this merges them together. The first part talks about the movie, financial performance, and some reviews. The break is in the middle of the 1st part. The 2nd part deals with how Disney took the #1 cinema franchise of all time, and created apathy.

First I direct you to this story from Marvin Montanaro at Geeks + Gamers: ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is Officially The Lowest Opening Disney Star Wars Movie Ever

For years, Disney and Lucasfilm treated Din Djarin and Grogu like the future of Star Wars. The duo became the centerpiece of the franchise’s streaming era, drove massive merchandise sales, and were positioned as the answer to fan backlash surrounding the sequel trilogy. Now, the box office numbers are in for The Mandalorian and Grogu, and they paint a troubling picture for the state of the brand.

The film officially opened to approximately $81.9 million domestically over its traditional 3-day opening weekend, with an estimated $102 million over the extended Memorial Day frame.

Now Marvin only had the Sunday and Monday estimates. Typing this on Tuesday 26 May, I have the actual spend, at least the domestic spend. The number is NOT $102 million. The actual number (from The Numbers - click on the Box Office tab) is $98 million domestically as of the end of Memorial Day weekend (Monday the 25th).

There was much discussion prior to the weekend, if it would be necessary to account for inflation of the next-worst-performing, Disney, Star Wars movie; it is not. The worst-performing movie HAD BEEN Solo: A Star Wars Story, which came out in 2018. It also released on Memorial Day weekend. Domestically Solo cleared $103 million through its first Monday. That is without accounting for inflation.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is officially the worst-performing movie in the entire Disney era. It is worse if you take inflation into account.